HDR Flaws

[mgilvey]

What list of flaws do you try to prevent when making an HDR? I suppose the list will be different for people trying to make full scale images VS super saturated so please specify which you are addressing.

 

[480sparky]

Most of the flaws I try to avoid are halos, blooming, and misalignments.

......... full scale images VS super saturated ..........

Huh?

 

[Light Guru]

Anything that does not look natural. In my opinion to many people over cook them.

 

[mgilvey]

What I mean with Full Scale is an image that has a full scale of tones; natural looking as oppose to really saturated. Sorry, I probably should have said "natural" looking. I was thinking Ansel Adams when I said full scale.

 

[spacefuzz]

overcooking, chromatic abberation, noise, ghosting, balancing the FG and sky. moving elements in the scene. bracketing properly. realism.

 

[480sparky]

One can oversaturate a non-HDR image as well, so I guess I don't see the connection between "full scale of tones" and oversaturation.

 

[Light Guru]

One can oversaturate a non-HDR image as well, so I guess I don't see the connection between "full scale of tones" and oversaturation.

Exactly

 

[mgilvey]

overcooking, chromatic abberation, noise, ghosting, balancing the FG and sky. moving elements in the scene. bracketing properly. realism.

What do you mean by balancing the foreground with the sky?

 

[mgilvey]

One can oversaturate a non-HDR image as well, so I guess I don't see the connection between "full scale of tones" and oversaturation.

Ok, I must not be describing it accurately enough:
Full Scale: an image that utilizes HDR to bring out a full range of tones and detail and look natural.
Over Saturated: An HDR image that has been deliberately over processed.

That said, I should have just looked at the sticky on HDR Basics and I would have seen that what I'm trying to say is referred to as: Creationist vs. Purists

So far, all the replies seem to have been directed toward Full Scale which makes me think that the obvious answer to the Over Saturated version is there are no real flaws to look for if what you are going to do is over state the image, these things could either be incorporated or looked at as an enhancement.

 

[mgilvey]

Let me add one more thing to the list in regard to shooting Full Scale: using more images than you need. The more brackets you use, the greater the chance that misrepresentation or sharpness will suffer. That doesn't mean you shouldn't shoot a large number of brackets, you just might not need them all and the fewer you use to get the image you want the better.

 

[DiskoJoe]

Halos are always number 1 on my list as they are the hardest to edit out.